09:12 <cmoi11> The following command does not work. Has somebody an idea how to make this work?

09:12 <cmoi11> riverctl map normal Mod1 F1 spawn "waylock --init-color #000000 & systemctl suspend"

09:14 <leon-p> ah, my favourite

09:14 <leon-p> river commands are executed by a shell

09:15 <leon-p> the '#' in your colour starts a shell comment

09:16 <cmoi11> Oh man. How stupid of me :D

09:16 <cmoi11> Thanks!

09:17 <leon-p> Don't judge yourself too harshly. We had about four other people facing the same issue the last two months. :)

09:26 <ifreund> kinda makes me feel like we should use something else for colors

09:27 <cmoi11> A related Question if I may ask: What is the best way to map command that contains "" and ''. Eg this from the Archwiki:

09:27 <cmoi11> j4-dmenu-desktop --dmenu='bemenu -i --nb "#3f3f3f" --nf "#dcdccc" --fn "pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 12"' --term='termite'

09:28 <cmoi11> Maybe with some kind of escaping?

09:28 <leon-p> +1 for using something else for colours. Re-using the comment character is pretty awkward in general.

09:29 <leon-p> I propose 0xrrggbb

09:29 <ifreund> yeah, 0x is fine by me

09:30 <ifreund> cmoi11: the simplest way is to put that in a shell script and use riverctl to map a keybind to run the script

09:31 <ifreund> otherwise, yes escaping should be possible

09:33 <cmoi11> Ok thanks :) Yeah an extra file is nicer I think.

16:29 <ifreund> just removing the # prefix for colors would work fine too, I'm not sure the 0x offers more clarity

16:47 <leon-p> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I am fine either way. I use 0x in my projects to make hex colours more distinct as I also allow rgb(rrr, ggg, bbb).

16:49 <ifreund> what we really want is 4 floating point numbers for rgba

16:49 <ifreund> hex is much more familiar to most people though

16:51 <leon-p> In the end, riverctl will do all the parsing, so I see no harm in supporting multiple colour formats

16:54 <ifreund> yeah, I can't wait to get all the parsing code out of the comopitor

16:55 <ifreund> though doing it this way was nice to get something working quickly

16:56 <cmoi11> I just tried it out and it seems the 0x syntax is already implemented

16:57 <cmoi11> At least it works

17:04 <ifreund> lol

17:05 <ifreund> uh, no it doesn't work for me

17:06 <ifreund> and it definitely shouldn't with the current code

17:22 <cmoi11> Curious, bcause even the error message tells that it works :)

17:22 <cmoi11> error: Invalid value for '--init-color <COLOR>': invalid color prefix, must start with '#' or '0x'

17:23 <cmoi11> Maybe it is implemented in a library that you use for the parsing?

17:25 <leon-p> cmoi11: from which alternate universe is your river version? I don't think we have that option in river…

17:25 <leon-p> oh, you mean the colour of waylock. d'oh.

17:26 <cmoi11> Yes waylock :)

17:27 <cmoi11> Sorry if I confused you, I thougt we were talking about waylock.

19:56 <koalaaa> Heya, so I don't know alot of programming thus I sadly cant contribute to developing :/ But just gotta say, it's definently looking promising and would love to use it once more features such as idle, touchscreen etc has been added